{"id":3088,"date":"2025-07-04T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:14:36","slug":"getting-math-education-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/getting-math-education-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting math education right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lindadarlinghammond\/2025\/06\/28\/its-time-to-change-the-math-calculus-how-the-us-can-finally-get-math-education-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lindadarlinghammond\/2025\/06\/28\/its-time-to-change-the-math-calculus-how-the-us-can-finally-get-math-education-right\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3090\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960x0-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960x0-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960x0-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/960x0.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article by Linda Darling-Hammond on Forbes highlights a significant <strong>crisis in mathematics education<\/strong> within the United States, pointing to <strong>low PISA scores<\/strong> and a widespread <strong>fear of math<\/strong> among students, leading to <strong>labor shortages<\/strong> in technical fields. Darling-Hamond highlights the need for <strong>comprehensive reform<\/strong>, drawing comparisons with <strong>high-achieving countries<\/strong> like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>Her key recommendations for improvement include <strong>redesigning curriculum<\/strong> to be more integrated and focused on real-world problem-solving, providing <strong>high-quality instructional materials<\/strong> and <strong>ongoing support for teachers<\/strong>, and fostering a <strong>positive classroom culture<\/strong> that promotes curiosity, a sense of belonging, and a growth mindset in students.<\/p>\n<p>We can do this!<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLE:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lindadarlinghammond\/2025\/06\/28\/its-time-to-change-the-math-calculus-how-the-us-can-finally-get-math-education-right\/ This article by Linda Darling-Hammond on Forbes highlights a significant crisis in mathematics education within the United States, pointing to low PISA scores and a widespread fear of math among students, leading to labor shortages in technical fields. Darling-Hamond highlights the need for comprehensive reform, drawing comparisons with high-achieving countries like Singapore, Japan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}